Riddells Creek - Grasshoppers and Crickets
(click on the name or the picture for a larger/better picture)
New - Added July 2007

	Common Name	Scientific Name (Family)
1	Common Macrotona Grasshopper ?? (nymph)	Macrotona australis (Acrididae)
	Mole Cricket This is the insect that lives in the ground and sings its deafening song at dusk in summer - click here to listen (recorded at the Lions Park)	Probably Gryllotalpa brachyptera (Gryllotalpidae)
	Black Field Cricket (nymph)	Probably Teleogryllus commodus (Gryllidae)

Grasshoppers and Crickets (and Locusts) are insects that make up the Order Orthoptera. There
are over 2,800 species of Cricket and Grasshopper in Australia.

Is it a grasshopper or a cricket? Although there are exceptions, grasshoppers tend to have short
antennae (less than half body length), wheras crickets have longer antennae (over half body length).

More information about Grasshoppers and Crickets. Good books about Grasshoppers (and Locusts):
"A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts" by DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su & MS Upton.
Good general book about Insects: "A Field Guide to Insects in Australia" by Paul Zborowski & Ross Storey.

More about Insects & other Invertebrate classes.

We'd like to acknowledge Wendy Moore for her help in identification on this page.

If you've seen a Grasshopper, Locust or Cricket in Riddells Creek that isn't on
this list please let us know ... we'd love to add it to our list.

All photos are taken in Riddells Creek. If you have photos taken in Riddells Creek
and would like to submit them, send them to Russell & Gill Best.

All photos ©Riddells Creek Landcare or Photographer.

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